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But more importantly, I turn thirty-six today. This is not the worst thing to happen to me this year, but clocking another birthday is not among my favorite events. I know I’m smiling in the picture on the left, but that’s only because stress and angst don’t make for good portraits. Birthdays make me want to go coffin shopping.

Two days ago I mentioned to my 9-year-old daughter Rachel that despite her dark hair, the hair on the back of her neck was blond. (I forget how THAT came up. Parents say the darndest things.) She looked at me a moment, then pointed to my forehead, “Look daddy, you have blond hairs too!” Sigh. No kid, those hairs… those are grey.

One year ago my wife got me copy of Comic Book Creator for my birthday. This gift led to the creation of DM of the Rings. I won’t be posting a strip today, but I will have a little screenshot fun at poor Denethor’s expense. This will be the last time I do this. After today, strips will appear uninterrupted until the end.

And while we’re on the subject of birthdays: Twenty Sided will be two years old on September 1st. DMotR will be a year old – and will also end – on September 7th.

I’d kill for some grey hair. At 29 years old I still have the face of a high school student. I had to grow a beard just so I didn’t get suspicious looks when I ordered a drink at a bar. But I have hope, I here kids will give you grey hair and we are expecting are first one in January. So maybe grey hair isn’t that far off.

Happy Belly Button Day! Coffin shopping already? Wait until you turn 40. That’s when you swear you see vultures circling everywhere you go.

I must be the old fogy in the crowd – I turned 40 this year. I love my gray hairs! Though it irritates me that they don’t grow where I want them to. I’m trying to get that Bride of Frankenstein stripe going.

Feliz AniversÃ¡rio, Shamus!*
And thank you for spend your spare time giving us such a fun as DMotR! And don’t be angry with grey hair. At least you still have hair!
* “Happy Birthday, Shamus!” – from Brazil :)

I dunno, no sooner do I give you kudos for keeping the schedule on DMotR tight, you go and miss one on the flimsy excuse of a “birthday”. Tsk. Youth of today etc etc.

Congratulations, Shamus. I hope you can find a way to make your next comic a moneyspinner. It’s fun to create for its own sake, but it’s even funner to get paid good money for stuff you enjoy doing and are good at, as you already know from your programming gigs.

Congrats! Just think, when you turn 40, you can have a really cool birthday. I had a space walk. It was also special birthday because I am a leap year baby so I was also turning 10. My mother asked me what I wanted for my b’day and I said a space walk. She secretly called the husband and boy friends of my friends and they came out birthday morning and set it up in the back yard.

Many happy returns Shamus! I said Happy B-day on the comic, but reading this answered my question. I wouldn’t worry about the grey stuff. My wife keeps finding little strips of it on my head, then nagging me because I have it. I don’t think she realizes that she might be part of the cause >

Happy Birthday Anniversary. It WAS a a great day, wasn’t it? Remember how my doctor couldn’t deliver you because he was in the hospital with kidney stones? And how Hot it was in North Carolina in August? O, and remember the look on the nurses face when she was filling out the birth certificate and I told her your name? Shamus?! Telemachus?!!! Ah, good times.

Happy birthday to you! However, it is also LN The Great’s birthday, and she might be mad at you if she finds you are trying to steal the spotlight. Keep your head down and stay in the middle of the party.

Yes, I just made fun of your age. But only in self-defense. Because in just a few short years, I’ll be old too. So I prefer to get my licks in while I can.

Happy birthday, Shamus! I hope this day manages to bring you as much joy as your blogs and comic bring me. And if, at some point today, you find yourself laughing so hard that you fear you might wet yourself or die of asphyxiation, you’ll know that my birthday wish for you has come true.

PS I’ll be sorry to see DMotR go, but no matter what you have in store next, I eagerly anticipate it. With your sense of humour, it can’t go wrong.

My next will be 44, and i still update every day on the day to see if your bloody comic has turned up. Incidentally, even Order of the Stick’s Rich Burlew is recently undergoing health issues. Maybe being funny consumes health. Hope not.

Ha.. try 42 on for size.. you’ve just started the downward slide.. wait til it starts picking up speed… Have a Fabulous Birth Day.. and Thanks Mom for naming him Shamus.. DM of the Rings by Fred just wouldn’t be right.